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Joe and Rosa come by the Underground to Chester County.
(From Johnson's Lake Shore Home Magazine Vol* VIII, No, 1 January, 1888.)
Joe and Rosa,
[p.19] They lived in the Shenandoah Valley, near the Blue Ridge, They had been sold one day and decided to flee. [p.20] They started about midnight and at daylight hid in a swamp. The fourth night they became so exhausted with hunger and fatigue that they lay down in the woods, expecting to die. At night Joe went to a house and the man gave him bread and meat for himself and v/ife, and said they were to stay where they were, and the fol¬ lowing night were to come to the house. They did so, Rosa stopping in some bushes near the house. Her master and two of his neighbors went to the house (Joe having hidden in the woods) and were told that two runaways had passed up the road. The pursuers followed,
Joe and Rosa [p*21] were at the southern terminus of the Underground Railroad, They were soon landed in Chester County, Pa., and found employment with a Quaker farmer*
One day the Quaker told Joe that one Ridgley, who said he lived in Virginia, was stopping in Chester and had em¬ ployed a slave hunter to arrest a man and woman who had escaped from his plantation the year before. The Quaker

Joe and Rosa come by the Underground to Chester County.
(From Johnson's Lake Shore Home Magazine Vol* VIII, No, 1 January, 1888.)
Joe and Rosa,
[p.19] They lived in the Shenandoah Valley, near the Blue Ridge, They had been sold one day and decided to flee. [p.20] They started about midnight and at daylight hid in a swamp. The fourth night they became so exhausted with hunger and fatigue that they lay down in the woods, expecting to die. At night Joe went to a house and the man gave him bread and meat for himself and v/ife, and said they were to stay where they were, and the fol¬ lowing night were to come to the house. They did so, Rosa stopping in some bushes near the house. Her master and two of his neighbors went to the house (Joe having hidden in the woods) and were told that two runaways had passed up the road. The pursuers followed,
Joe and Rosa [p*21] were at the southern terminus of the Underground Railroad, They were soon landed in Chester County, Pa., and found employment with a Quaker farmer*
One day the Quaker told Joe that one Ridgley, who said he lived in Virginia, was stopping in Chester and had em¬ ployed a slave hunter to arrest a man and woman who had escaped from his plantation the year before. The Quaker